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José Ramón Paño @joserrapa.bsky.social · Sep 2

EIS (@escmid.bsky.social)/ AMC Epi Alert (Sept 2, 2025)

- Cholera (Nepal & Chad)
- Chikungunya (Americas, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh Europe local transmission)
- Dengue (Europe, Florida)
- WNV (Italy > 400)
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José Ramón Paño @joserrapa.bsky.social · Aug 19

#ESCMID Emerging Infections Subcommittee & Amsterdam Medical Center
#EpiAlert

- Measles (Americas, Global)
- Chikungunya (Global)
- Oropuche (Americas)
- Listeria (Europe)
- Cholera (Sudan)

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Activities

Find out more about the wide range of science and research initiatives, projects, and programmes supported by ESCMID.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Jul 25

I found another fun Veo 3 prompt: "Realistic footage of the moon landing, but it took place in [year]"

Here is 1883 AD, 1255 AD, 44 AD, 2300 BC, 30,000 BC, and 65 million years ago

Yes, there was apparently wind on the moon back then, you are just going to have suspend disbelief a bit.

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JAC-AMR @jac-amr.bsky.social · Jul 22

Swiss study finds a threefold increase in macrolide use among children during global Mycoplasma pneumoniae outbreak in late 2023:
doi.org/10.1093/jaca...
#IDSky #JACAMRNews

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CIDRAP-ASP @cidrap-asp.bsky.social · Jul 22

Sandoz has expanded its voluntary recall for vials incorrectly labelled as "Penicillin G Potassium for Injection" that may contain "Cefazolin for Injection"

www.fda.gov/safety/recal...

Update – Sandoz Inc. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall Expansion of One Additional Lot of Cefazolin for Injection Due to Vials Being Potentially Mislabeled as Penicillin G Potassium for Injection

Sandoz, Inc. (“Sandoz”) is initiating a voluntary nationwide recall expansion of one additional lot of Cefazolin for Injection, USP, 1 gram per vial. The lot is being recalled due to a customer compla...

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · Jul 23

"But because only 3% of Gavi’s budget goes to administrative costs, a relatively low figure compared with other charities, that leaves little to cut before important programmes are under threat."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Help save 2 million lives: close the vaccine funding gap

Gavi, the vaccine provider for the world’s poorest people, needs an extra US$3 billion to protect infants and other vulnerable groups. More donors must step up.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · Jul 22

Cambodian boy in ICU with H5N1 avian flu infection

The case marks the eighth since early June and is part of a steady rise since late 2023.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · Jul 22

AHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHH alignment.anthropic.com/2025/sublimi...

Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data

alignment.anthropic.com

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Juan E. Losa @juanelosag.bsky.social · Jul 20

La viremia VIH no suprimible es un desafío clínico. Excelente revisión de los infectólogos de La Paz en Lancet.

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Juan E. Losa @juanelosag.bsky.social · Jul 20

Los inhibidores de los puntos de control inmunitario revierten la latencia del VIH y potencian la respuesta citotóxica frente a este virus. Esta acción dual hace de estos fármacos una atractiva estrategia en la investigación de la curación de las personas con VIH.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · Jul 17

I think a lot of non-US based researchers have little interest in traveling to the US (can’t blame them). Wish getting to ESCMID on VA funds wasn’t so hard

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José Molina @josemolinagb.bsky.social · Jul 20

A relevant update from the SNAP trial on adjunctive clindamycin, and some thoughtful insights in the thread below!
@steventong.bsky.social
@gurujosh.bsky.social
@seanong.bsky.social @drtoddlee.bsky.social
#AMSsky #IDsky

Sébastien Poulin @sebpoule.bsky.social · Jul 16

SNAP trial update

➡️ The DSMC provided a recommendation to close the ADJUNCTIVE domain (Clindamycin), due to a statistical trigger for futility being met.

#IDsky

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José Ramón Paño @joserrapa.bsky.social · Jul 10

"The four major tetM-carrying lineages circulating since 2020 together account for 83% of tetM-carrying isolates".
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"Of the four major lineages, two carry variants in penA (encoding penicillin-binding protein 2 [PBP2], the main target of ceftriaxone) that increase ceftriaxone resistance"

José Ramón Paño @joserrapa.bsky.social · Jul 10

"These results suggest that widespread use of doxycycline for the treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections may be contributing to reshaping of the gonococcal population in the United States" www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Expansion of tetM-Carrying Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the United States, 2018–2024 | NEJM

During 2018–2024, the percentage of N. gonorrhoeae isolates carrying tetM, which confers tetracycline resistance, increased from less than 10% to more than 30% across the United States.

www.nejm.org

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José Ramón Paño @joserrapa.bsky.social · May 30

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One More Cup Of Coffee

Frazey Ford · Obadiah (Bonus Version) · Song · 2010

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José Ramón Paño @joserrapa.bsky.social · May 7

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Sweet Child O' Mine - Acoustic

Slash, Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators · Spotify Sessions · Song · 2014

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Paul Sax @paulsaxmd.bsky.social · Apr 18

The SNAP trial may finally resolve some of the longest-running debates in SAB management (cefazolin vs semi-synthetic PCN? Is PCN really active vs PSSA?).
Huge congrats to Drs. Joshua Davis, Steven Tong, & the global team who made this ambitious trial happen. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

SNAP Trial Helps Resolve Long-Running Controversies Over Management of Staph Bacteremia

For those who do hospital-based patient care, the significance of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) cannot be overstated. It’s one of the most frequent reasons for infectious disease consultation...

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Marc Bonten @marcbonten.bsky.social · Mar 21

".... many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years."

On a scale of from 0 to 10, how likely do you think that there will be fair elections in 28?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...